
Chain of Gold
Cassandra Clare · The Last Hours #1
Shares forbidden love, found family & hidden world / portal. Same author, too.
Read-alikes
Lady Midnight is forbidden love, slow burn & found family — sweet (1/5), third-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.
Five years after a devastating war, teenage Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs is obsessed with finding who murdered her parents. When a string of ritual killings mirror the same dark magic that claimed them, Emma and her parabatai — her sworn battle-partner Julian Blackthorn — launch a secret investigation that drags them into faerie politics and a conspiracy stretching across Los Angeles. The catch: Shadowhunter law forbids parabatai from falling in love, and neither Emma nor Julian can ignore what is growing between them.
Share the most of what makes Lady Midnight work.

Cassandra Clare · The Last Hours #1
Shares forbidden love, found family & hidden world / portal. Same author, too.

Cassandra Clare · The Mortal Instruments #1
Shares hidden world / portal, forbidden love & found family. Same author, too.

Shares found family, slow burn & forbidden love.

Richelle Mead · Bloodlines #1
Shares forbidden love, slow burn & hidden world / portal.

Shares slow burn, forbidden love & hidden world / portal.

Roshani Chokshi · The Gilded Wolves #2
Shares found family, slow burn & forbidden love.

Roshani Chokshi · The Gilded Wolves #3
Shares found family, slow burn & forbidden love.

Shares hidden world / portal, forbidden love & found family.

Renee Ahdieh · The Beautiful #1
Shares forbidden love, slow burn & hidden world / portal.

Cassandra Clare · The Infernal Devices #2
Shares slow burn & found family. Same author, too.

Cassandra Clare · The Infernal Devices #1
Shares slow burn & hidden world / portal. Same author, too.

Leigh Bardugo · Six of Crows #2
Shares found family & slow burn.